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S.O.U.L.

The Summer Of Understanding and Learning (S.O.U.L.) program is a hands-on, educational summer program offered by the Georgia Mutual Assistance Association Consortium (GMAAC) in Atlanta, GA.

S.O.U.L. seeks to provide refugee children of more than a dozen ethnicities, in kindergarten through high school, with eight weeks of intellectually stimulating, intensive, and fulfilling education and fun. Staff and local volunteers work with a themed curriculum developed for S.O.U.L. each year by participating Americorps VISTA volunteers.

This free program focuses on topics like cultural awareness, team building, and fostering cross-cultural friendships. It includes field trips and inspiring guest speakers.

Over a hundred children and youth take part each summer.

Learn more about this month’s featured program.
 

Bridging Refugee Youth and Children’s Services (BRYCS) is a national technical assistance project working to broaden the scope of information and collaboration among service providers - in order to strengthen services to refugee youth, children and their families. Read more about our mission and services.
JUNE 2003 SPOTLIGHT

Sharing the Future
CELEBRATE WORLD REFUGEE DAY

This World Refugee Day, June 20, 2003, is dedicated to refugee youth. Over ten million refugees around the world are youth or children, as are more than a third of refugees entering the United States.

World Refugee Day reminds service providers to celebrate the strengths, cultures and unique contributions of refugees. Refugee youth share their strengths every day: in schools, in play, and in friendships. Through sharing, the future becomes possible.

Sharing and supporting refugee youths’ cultures, languages, ethnicities, and religions are important, both for the youths’ development and as an investment in our communities. Click here for resource ideas.

Read the Spotlight from last month.
WHAT'S NEW


in BRYCS

Check out our new materials:

Announcing free, on-site refugee parent services consultation, to be guided by the BRYCS manual Strengthening Services for Refugee Parents.
The director of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement calls attention to the BRYCS clearinghouse and technical assistance services.
Public child welfare workers: Connect to the BRYCS public child welfare online assessment tool which addresses service challenges.
BRYCS is making plans to hold a Refugees and Foster Care Roundtable this summer.

in the Clearinghouse

This month's featured search highlights refugee cultures with resources that focus on cultural awareness, cultural competency for service providers, and other related topics.
You can view a list of past monthly topical resources here.


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